Ray Bradbury’s The October Country eerily transcends any recycled sense of thematic bottom-feeding. Each story told has its own retelling of that same theme to the point of feeling redundant rather than revisited. Short story collections embody a certain theme that almost sound the same as the ringing of a bell. Yes, that’s the way to put it: people who do things.” – Ray Bradbury, The October Country, “The Man Upstairs” You can’t heave them into categories with labels and say they’ll act one way or another. We don’t know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. “It’s poor judgement,” said Grandpa, “to call anything by a name. Author: Ray Bradbury Illustrator: Joseph Mugnaini Publisher: Del Rey Books | Ballantine Books Published: 1955 (originally), 1996 Genres: Horror, Fantasy Pages: 336
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